[gmx-users] angular momentum.

[David van der Spoel]

On Fri, 2002-09-27 at 10:26, Nguyen Hoang Phuong wrote:
> 
> Dear All,
> 
> the simulations of a peptide in vacuum are performed using NVE
> ensemble. In principal, the angular momentum of the molecule should be
> conserved but in my simulations, its magnitude  increases as a function of
> time. Does anyone know why?
Have you turned on the angular center of mass motion removal?

> Another question is that how GROMACS calculates the rotational
> inertia tensor for a planar molecule? 
It will crash with a determinant error...


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Groeten, David.
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